September 18, 2024 | Headlines, PSR, STB
(Source: Trains.com, September 18, 2024) At the opening of today’s Surface Transportation Board hearing on the lack of rail freight volume growth, Vice Chair Karen Hedlund said she was still struck by what she heard the day before from analysts and shippers and Class...
September 17, 2024 | Headlines, Long Trains
(Source: Associated Press, September 17, 2024) As freight trains have grown ever longer, the number of derailments related to the forces created when railcars push and pull against each other also increased, so the National Academies of Sciences said Tuesday in a...
September 12, 2024 | East Palestine-NS, Headlines, NS
(Source: CNN, September 12, 2024) Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw was fired for cause by the railroad’s board for “engaging in a consensual relationship with the company’s chief legal officer,” who was also terminated, the railroad announced Wednesday evening. While...
September 10, 2024 | Canada, CN, CPKC, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: The Conversation, August 7, 2024) On Aug. 24, Canada’s federal labour board ordered the Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPK) railways, along with over 9,000 workers, to return to work and enter binding arbitration to produce a new...
September 10, 2024 | Headlines, NS
(Source: Reuters, September 9, 2024) Norfolk Southern’s CEO Alan Shaw is expected to step down from his role at the railroad company amid an investigation into allegations of potential workplace misconduct, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on...
September 6, 2024 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Amtrak press release, September 5, 2024) OLD LYME, Conn. – Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner today joined U.S. Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy,...
September 5, 2024 | Canada, CN, CPKC, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference press release, August 30, 2024) The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (Teamsters) filed appeals challenging the decisions that led to binding arbitration being imposed on workers at CN and CPKC, effectively stripping them of...
September 5, 2024 | Headlines, Organizing, Short Line, Unions
(Source: American Train Dispatchers Association press release, September 4, 2024) On September 4, 2024, the National Mediation Board (NMB) announced that Train Dispatchers from the Genesee & Wyoming Railroad (G&W) have voted to unionize with the American Train...
August 29, 2024 | 2-man Crews, CSX, Fatality, Headlines, Railroad Safety, Remote Control
(Source: Associated Press, August 28, 2024) The CSX worker who discovered his friend run over by a pair of remote-control locomotives in a railyard last year sees a simple solution to preventing similar deaths in the future: two-person crews. But that idea won’t be...
August 28, 2024 | BNSF, C3RS, FRA, Headlines, Railroad Safety
(Source: Associated Press, August 28, 2024) Freight railroad BNSF is generally striving to improve safety on a consistent basis, but that message doesn’t always reach front-line workers who often don’t feel comfortable reporting safety concerns for fear of being...
